Continuous variables i.e. duration of clinical illness, rectal temperature, CSF leukocyte numbers, CSF/blood glucose ratios, CSF protein concentrations, blood leukocytes, and serum CRP concentrations were compared between carriers of wild type (WT) alleles and mutant alleles in MM patients for TLR9 -1237 and TLR9 +2848 respectively. The gene discussed is TLR9; the disease is Miyoshi myopathy.